1096年の永長地震・津波 :: Kristina Buhrman (United States)

概略：1096年の南海トラフ津波地震は駿河と伊勢海の海岸沿いの地域を破壊しました。この地震は当時の首都であった京都の象徴的な建物にも損害を与え、史料には無防備な海岸沿いの地域よりもこちらが受けた被害の方が詳しく記録されています。それぞれの被害規模の違いと残された記録は当時の政治情勢と地勢を反映します。災害時の対応もこの距離感に影響され、都市が受けた被害が優先されました。

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Kristina Buhrman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at the Florida State University. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of History at the University of Southern California with the dissertation “The Stars and the State: Astronomy, Astrology, and the Politics of Natural Knowledge in Early Medieval Japan” (2012). Her research is on the interpretation of nature, particularly natural disasters, in premodern Japan, a topic that combines the history of science with political history and the history of religions. She lends Teach 3.11 her expertise and interest in the history of disasters in Japan before the modern period. Aside from her premodern focus, she is interested in the modern interaction between East Asian religions and science, and in collaborations between historians and scientists in making risk assessments. Kristina graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in Linguistics with a concentration in Cognitive Studies, and before entering her Ph.D. program she worked as a website support specialist for the Cornell University Libraries.

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The Teach311 + COVID-19 Collective began in 2011 as a joint project of the Forum for the History of Science in Asia and the Society for the History of Technology Asia Network and is currently expanded in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science(Artifacts, Action, Knowledge) and Nanyang Technological University-Singapore.